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A SEASON IN HELL
by Arthur Rimbaud
translated by Nick Sarno
A new translation of the groundbreaking work of French Symbolism. Featuring color plates by artist Gerald Bacasa. All proceeds will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Nadine Nakanishi of Sonnenzimmer. 2009
$20.00
LOVE IS A CERTAIN KIND OF FLOWER
by Stephanie Brooks
Love Is a Certain Kind of Flower is an extensive index of love metaphors culled from poems ranging from the classics to sentimental greeting card verse. Continuing in Brooks’ deconstruction of Romance, Love Is… provides an amusing and sometimes poignant reference for emotive description.
Love Is a Certain Kind of Flower is number two in the Pocket Lantern Series.
Printed in an edition of 250. 2009
$10.00
SO MUCH BETTER
by Terri Griffith
Liz is an employee at The Unified Telecommunications Credit Union, a job she has not missed a day of for three years. In between her daydreams of moving someplace warm, she peers at the bank account of her former lover, runs background checks on herself, attempts to dodge the young girl she has started an affair with, and hopes to reconnect with her missing sister. At first glance, it may seem as though very little happens over the course of the novel, but before long the minor events which seem so unimportant build upon one another until they collapse completely, as Liz forces herself to explore the depths a person will go to be alone.
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Nick Butcher of Sonnenzimmer. Featuring a color plate by LA artist Zoe Crosher. 2009
$20.00
FASCIA
by Ashley Donielle Murray
n. pl. fas·ci·ae 1. Anatomy A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body. 2. The debut collection of short fiction by Ashley Donielle Murray.
Like the tissues binding the heart to its arteries, the stories in Murray’s collection describe the threads, sometimes thin, sometimes strong, that connect daughter to father, husband to wife, and ourselves to our own histories. Each story is its own quiet revelation and has the ability to bind the reader to the book long after the covers have been closed.
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Nadine Nakanishi of Sonnenzimmer. 2009
$20.00
THE NORTH GEORGIA GAZETTE AND WINTER CHRONICLE
by William Edward Parry and the crews of the Hecla and Griper
An annotated transcription of the 1821 newspaper, The North Georgia Gazette. The newspaper, written and published aboard an English ship trapped in the Arctic, was an attempt by the captain to lessen the boredom of a long, isolated winter. The result is an incredible existential metaphor, in which a group of people, stranded in the dark, are forced to make their own meaning in order to survive. The Gazette comes at a time of enormous climatic change, and it seeks to point out the importance of the relationships between humans and their surrounding environment. In addition to the entire 1821 newspaper, the book includes excerpts from the Captain's journal, original annotations by transcriber/poet Lily Robert-Foley, an introduction by St. John's (MD) Professor Dr. Michael Comenetz, an essay about optimism and humility by contemporary Arctic expeditionist John Huston and contemporary artwork by artists Deb Sokolow, Daniel Anhorn, Jason Dunda, and Nick Butcher.
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Nick Butcher of Sonnenzimmer. 2009
$35.00
PHONEBOOK 2008/2009
Edited by Caroline Picard, Nick Sarno and Shannon Stratton
Back by popular demand, Phonebook is the essential travel guide to artist-run centers, small, not-for-profit fringe galleries and other exhibition and presentation projects. This new edition adds over 50 news spaces in the United States and over 40 Canadian centers alongside updated entries, periodical listings, a series of essays from across the country and some road-trip tips from the editors.
Phonebook is a valuable resource for artist and audience alike, connecting a web of makers and projects while acting as an archive of work by smaller organizations and groups throughout the visual arts community. Use Phonebook as a research tool, as a travel guide to the visual arts, for networking, for exhibition proposals or to facilitate artistic exchanges.
Printed in an edition of 500 in conjunction with threewalls. 2008
$15.00
FRAGMENTS
by David Carl
An extended meditation on the sentence--an inquiry into how we make use of language to express our selves, and an investigation of how language helps shape and determine who and what those selves are.
An imaginary conversation between Falstaff and Chuang Tzu, Veronica Lake and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
A love story told through grammatical miscalculations, syntactical anomalies, and the fortuitous discoveries of vocabulary:
"Intelligence is manifest in the ability to get what one wants, wisdom in the ability to properly determine what that is.
For months he lived on Altoids, coffee, vitamin C, and the hope that she would call.
There is no present like the one you imagined in the past.
Skepticism as a kind of tourism.
An economy all their own in which his vocabulary is not even legal tender."
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Alana Bailey. 2008
$20.00
TALKING WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL
by Lori Waxman, Claire Pentecost and Carrie Lambert-Beatty
The more art shifts between convention and social action, sculpture and public performance, art and the everyday, the more complicated it becomes to talk about. As socially engaged art rides the boundaries of multiple subjects simultaneously, historians, critics and other artists must develop multifaceted responses. To discuss projects that include a broad and unfolding web of topics such as art, ecology, racial politics, and gender is to speak in many voices all at the same time. The aim of this symposium is to add to the critical language that frames these projects so they can be discussed in a more structured and poignant way.
Prepared for the threewalls symposium Talking With Your Mouth Full.
Number one in the Pocket Lantern Series.
Printed in an edition of 250.
$10.00
LUST AND CASHMERE
by A.E. Simns
Things can happen when a man falls in love with a sweater. Lust and Cashmere is about an unrequited love limited to self-imposed doctrines of propriety. Any number of intellectual conclusions can be drawn, but even the most serious will have to negotiate the gutter, which plagues Jon McManus and eventually the reader. It is divided in three parts, beginning with a Cinderella story. The first part is a straightforward narrative, the second a play of absurd humor and the third a choose your own adventure.
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Alana Bailey. 2008
$20.00
PHONEBOOK 2007/2008
Edited by Caroline Picard
Because a space heater and good friends can be a million times warmer than central heating and track lighting, Phonebook is an invaluable, yet by no means exhaustive (yet) guide to America's finest alternative artspaces. These are the galleries you are unlikely to find in your average tourist guide, the ones located in basements, in lofts, off of alleys, and in suburban back yards. These are the movies Moviefone won't tell you about and the lecture series you won't find among your course guides. These are the places that will remind you why you liked this stuff in the first place.
Printed in an edition of 500 in conjunction with threewalls. 2007
$10.00
SKETCHES: ORGANIZING ARTS DELUXE EDITION
Edited by Eizabeth Chodos and Kerry Schneider
In conjunction with the threewalls 2007 symposium Creating Context, Sketches illustrates the process of arts administration through notes, budgets, writings and other ephemera by people who organize, produce, enable and administrate in the arts.
"Illustrating the process of turning an idea into something tangible."
Printed in an edition of 250 with silkscreen covers by Mat Daly. 2007
$20.00
SKETCHES: ORGANIZING ARTS
Edited by Eizabeth Chodos and Kerry Schneider
All of the content of the Deluxe Edition, without the silkscreen cover (though a bit lighter on the wallet).
Printed in an edition of 1500. 2007
$10.00
GOD BLESS THE SQUIRREL CAGE
by Nick Sarno
There comes a time in the lives of people of a certain disposition when following any path other than that of an artist seems unthinkable. They read books with titles like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and see something of themselves in their pages. They begin painting or writing poetry. They throw themselves into such a life with a passion and fury that seems reserved for such an age and then, usually, they stop. They grow up, leaving that life behind them. And yet books wherein the protagonist overcomes all obstacles to become an artist, where, in the final pages, one learns that the young man or woman picks up a pen and begins to write a book with a title like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, continue to be written. God Bless the Squirrel Cage is not one of those books.
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Mat Daly. 2006
$20.00
URBESQUE
By Moshe Zvi Marvit
Urbesque is a collection of short (in the sense that most, though not all, of the pieces are shorter than forty pages) fiction (because they are untrue except, of course, for the parts that are). The characters who populate these stories do not travel to India or hang out with matadors. They do, however, go to job fairs, make furniture, leave their swords in the lockers at work, write letters to the objects that surround them and take pictures of it all, years after the fact, to remind them not to forget. If, one day, a copy of Urbesque should appear unannounced on your doorstep, looking a little worse for wear, with whiskey on its breath, invite it in. Make room for it on your couch or bookshelf. Or, better yet, read it.
Printed in an edition of 500 with silkscreen covers by Mat Daly. 2006
$20.00
PAPER & CARRIAGE #3
Edited by Joanna Topor Mackenzie, Caroline Picard, Chaz Reetz-Laiolo, and Shannon Stratton
The third issue of "Paper & Carriage" features writing by Dan Beachy-Quick, Rolf Achilles, Juliana Driever, Kate Zambreno and Richard Stern, the third installment of "Hums" by Lilli Carre and excerpts from Henry Darger's "The History of My Life." Also included are images by Daniel Johnston, a CD of Mantras from Sherri Lynn Wood's Mantra Trailer tour and prints by Carmen Price, and an artist centerfold curated by Brooke Anderson, in conjunction with the exhibit “DARGERism” at The American Folk Art Museum in New York. Letterpress covers by Dan S. Wang with an inventory list of objects in Darger's room.
Published in conjunction with threewalls.
Printed in an edition of 250 with letterpress covers by Dan S. Wang. 2008
$18.00
PAPER & CARRIAGE #2
Edited by Joanna Topor Mackenzie, Caroline Picard, Chaz Reetz-Laiolo, and Shannon Stratton
The second issue of "Paper & Carriage" features the writing of Colin Beattie, Dora Ishida, Erin Englebright, Britton Bertrand, Alex Javonovich and Moshe Zvi Marvit, with a curated centerfold by Deb Sokolow, screenprinted covers by Shawn Stucky and the second installment of "HUMS" series by Lili Carre.
Published in conjunction with threewalls.
Printed in an edition of 250 with silkscreen covers by Shawn Stucky. 2008
$18.00
PAPER & CARRIAGE #1
Edited by Joanna Topor Mackenzie, Caroline Picard, Chaz Reetz-Laiolo, and Shannon Stratton
“Paper & Carriage” is a non-fiction journal printed in a slow-media style; the authentic handling and delivery of unique contemporary voices, text and genres is our primary goal. This premier issue features writing by Alexai Galavaiz-Budziszewsk, Kathleen Kelley, Peter Orner, and Sam Schwartz, accompanied by the first installment of graphic novelist Lilli Carre's year long contribution "HUMS" and artist centerfold project by Scott Patrick Wiener. Elissa Bogos supplies photographic work.
Published in conjunction with threewalls.
Printed in an edition of 250 with silkscreen covers by Dan MacAdam of Crosshair. 2007
$18.00